Internet regulation gets a thumbs up from my 13-year-old daughter, and she’d like for it to begin with me. And, with the exception of her social media posts, she prefers that I take a heavy-handed approach, starting with her 15-year-old brother.

She lobbies for my sympathies using a high-pitched growl and shaking her smartphone toward my person. “Do you know what he did?” she squeaks. Glaring at her phone’s screen, she spits, “He’s so mean. I’m so mad.”

Take a drive around Columbia County, and it seems like everyone has some type of fruiting tree or vine growing in the landscape. One of the most neglected fruit bearing plants in the area is the muscadine. Muscadines are grapes native to America, and they are a staple of home gardens all over the Southeast. The muscadine vine can be recognized by the single-wire trellis and the seemingly thousands of entangled woody shoots. Following a few simple steps will greatly increase the health of your vines and produce bigger, sweeter grapes.

Linda Boland is passionate about growing roses. In fact, she’s been growing them since 1976, when she took castoffs from her mother’s rose garden and started growing her own.

“I’ve been growing them ever since,” she said. “When I lived in Millen (Ga.), I was growing close to 300 roses. I started at my current location with one rose and got as high as 125. Currently, my number is close to 75.”